On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:56, Andi Kleen wrote: > - It must be accepted to mainline.
Strongly disagree. What if the mainline fix is a rewrite of the core API involved. Some times you need to put in the short term fix. What must never happen is people accepting that fix as long term. How about - It must be accepted to mainline, or the accepted mainline patch be deemed too complex or risky to backport and thus a simple obvious alternative fix applied to stable ONLY. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/